Major splerging ahead:
What do Kiwis think of the first movie (The Motion Picture)?
It's not as bad as everyone says it is, but it's amazingly boring and uninspired. Has a fascinating development history that's more interesting than the actual film. I only really like II, IV, VI and First Contact. The rest of the films are meh
And since I have nowhere to put this, I like this interview and clip about Nemesis:
Still a bad film but I don't hate it as much as everyone else
Wasn't the Ezri banging Worf thing just kind of reinforcing how Trill shouldn't continue old relationships also? I mean it ended kind of badly.
The trill thing was a nonsensical addition that was only created to have some "taboo" lesbian kiss scene in a DS9 episode, seriously.
As far as gay trek, they never really did too much with that. What comes to mind is the episode with Riker and the non-gendered person race, and in ds9, there is an episode where Dax had a fling with one of her symbiotes previous spouse whose host is a woman now.
That was lame because they make a big show about how trill shouldn't continue old relationships when they have a new host but Ezri bangs worf later and it's cool
Well there were plans, at least for TNG and DS9, to have more exploration of LGBT themes, which shouldn't surprise anyone given the franchises clear progressive lefty bent (I mean the characters live in a communist utopia..) but it was constantly axed by producers. There was an episode planned to feature Wesley dating an alien girl who gets a sex change, for example. The guy who played Garak wanted to make the character bisexual and sexually attracted to Bashir. I read somewhere that many of the core writers of TNG wanted to portray the 24th century has having trans and other such stuff be commonplace, which could have been interesting, but people like Rick Berman axed it out of fear they'd make viewers uncomfortable. Kinda ironic if you know anything about TOS.
Edit:
Interesting video that addresses a lot of the Discovery rumors.
Ok, I watched your video, thanks for sharing this. Originally I wrote a blurb about being "cautiously optimistic" about Discovery, but I honestly have not followed much about it. This video however confirms much of my worst fears. I mean I was mainly optimistic because of the fact it was being headed and written by actual Trek writers: Bryan Fuller, Nicholas Meyer, Joe Menosky, three of the best writers of Trek. And while I never suspected it'd ever be as good as the heydays of TNG/DS9, and not have anything like the strong characterization and intriguing ideas that era of Trek had (given how television is nowadays), I was still optimistic. But the fact is, I figured CBS would not want a "real" (i.e. non-braindead) Trek and would force the writers to dumb down their material and make it essentially just JJ Abrams Trek on TV, and that's apparently what's going on, albeit times ten with much autism. They fired Fuller and sidelined or shitcanned the rest of the "old guard" of Trek they originally hired? Plus the WTF changes to make some sort of "transdimensional" bullshit...like...what? I'm not optimistic anymore, and expect the show will suck. I'll probably like Enterprise more if all these rumors are true (and Enterprise honestly isn't that bad, just sayin') The video even points out, despite the Abrams films doing well, most fans prefer the original "canon" and its look and feel, and clearly expect a tv series to follow that, so yet again, corporate executives meddling and fucking up. Of course these are all rumors, but apparently the channel has a good track record? And some of what they say fits with what we know
Anyway, I've been playing some old Star Trek games, the two Interplay adventure games from the early 90s, and unlike most Trek games, they're actually pretty good. They're like interactive episodes done right, with the entire original cast. There was a third one in the works by Interplay in the late 90's, "Secrets of Vulcan Fury" that looked pretty impressive:
It was cancelled apparently because Interplay underestimated how ambitious the game apparently was and it was too expensive. It was even going to be written by DC Fontana. There's also a TNG point and click adventure staring the TNG cast that people tell me is pretty good, but it's not on GOG or Stream so I haven't been able to play it yet.
There was also a Star Trek Voyager game in the works by Ken Levine, who's cancellation pissed him off so much, it was the reason he left Looking Glass and formed Irrational Games. So there's an odd bit of video game trivia for you.
its up there with the Shut Up Wesley episode (datalore)
